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Agency Problems and Political Institutions

Mitnick, Barry M. - 2013

To a very large extent, politics is agency. Indeed, agent-principal relationships pervade public and public-private behavior. This paper reviews the extensive but not yet integrated literature applying agency concepts to political settings. This includes agency in definitions of politics or...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074677

Political competition and legislative shirking in roll-call votes : evidence from Germany for 1953-2017

Frank, Marco; Stadelmann, David - 2020

We analyze the impact of elected competitors from the same constituency on legislative shirking in the German Bundestag from 1953 to 2017. The German electoral system ensures that there is always at least one federal legislator per constituency with a varying number of elected competitors from...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012301926

Electoral competition and endogenous political institutions : quasi-experimental evidence from Germany

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - 2015

Do established parties change political institutions to disadvantage smaller, nonmainstream parties if the latters ́electoral prospects improve? We study this question with a natural experiment from the German federal state of Hesse. The experiment is the abolishment of an explicit electoral...

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Electoral competition and endogenous political institutions : quasi-experimental evidence from Germany ; conference paper

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - 2014

Do established parties change political institutions to disadvantage smaller, non-mainstream parties if the latters' electoral prospects improve? We study this question with a natural experiment from the German federal State of Hesse. The experiment is the abolishment of an explicit electoral...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010484319

Judges and Taxes : Judicial Review, Judicial Independence and the Size of Government

Tridimas, George - 2005

The study investigates how judicial review of policy and judicial independence affect the relative size of government. Judicial oversight of policy is the authority of courts to check the legality of policy measures and annul measures which are incompatible with the constitution or are enacted...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014067112

Policing, Schooling and Human Capital Accumulation

Lopez Cruz, Ivan - 2016

A substantial body of empirical and policy literature argues that greater investment in schools can be a powerful tool against criminality and violence. On the other hand, recent work has demonstrated that low levels of public safety can have serious detrimental effects on educational outcomes....

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Searching for Keynes : an essay on the political economy of fiscal policy, with application to Canada, 1870-2000 - revised version

Winer, Stanley L.; Ferris, John Stephen - 2003

Keynes' General Theory (1936) is arguably one of the most important books of the twentieth century. His ideas for stabilizing the aggregate economy have profoundly influenced economic theory as well as popular opinion about what governments can and should do with respect to the business cycle....

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Trade Integration and Political Turbulence Environmental Policy Consequences

Fredriksson, Per G.; Mani, Muthukumara - 2021

This paper seeks to contribute to the unresolved issue of the effect of economic integration on environmental policy. In particular, we discuss the joint impact of trade openness and political uncertainty. Our theory predicts that the effect of trade integreation on the environment is...

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Identifying conflict and violence in micro-level surveys

Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Verwimp, Philip; … - 2010

, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … data-bases used to operationalize the variables of interest and discuss the channels linking violent conflict to individual … variables that allow researchers to analyze the welfare effects of violent conflict across countries and across time. We develop …

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Ethnic fragmentation, conflict, displaced persons and human trafficking: An empirical analysis

Akee, Randall K. Q.; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2010

fragmentation and conflict on international trafficking through internal and international displacements. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274570

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